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From: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] bpf: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
Date: Fri,  5 Sep 2025 10:53:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250905085309.94596-3-marco.crivellari@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250905085309.94596-1-marco.crivellari@suse.com>

Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.

This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

system_unbound_wq should be the default workqueue so as not to enforce
locality constraints for random work whenever it's not required.

Adding system_dfl_wq to encourage its use when unbound work should be used.

queue_work() / queue_delayed_work() / mod_delayed_work() will now use the
new unbound wq: whether the user still use the old wq a warn will be
printed along with a wq redirect to the new one.

The old system_unbound_wq will be kept for a few release cycles.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
---
 kernel/bpf/helpers.c  | 4 ++--
 kernel/bpf/memalloc.c | 2 +-
 kernel/bpf/syscall.c  | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
index e3a2662f4e33..b969ca4d7af0 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
@@ -1593,7 +1593,7 @@ void bpf_timer_cancel_and_free(void *val)
 	 * timer callback.
 	 */
 	if (this_cpu_read(hrtimer_running)) {
-		queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &t->cb.delete_work);
+		queue_work(system_dfl_wq, &t->cb.delete_work);
 		return;
 	}
 
@@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@ void bpf_timer_cancel_and_free(void *val)
 		if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&t->timer) >= 0)
 			kfree_rcu(t, cb.rcu);
 		else
-			queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &t->cb.delete_work);
+			queue_work(system_dfl_wq, &t->cb.delete_work);
 	} else {
 		bpf_timer_delete_work(&t->cb.delete_work);
 	}
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
index 889374722d0a..bd45dda9dc35 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static void destroy_mem_alloc(struct bpf_mem_alloc *ma, int rcu_in_progress)
 	/* Defer barriers into worker to let the rest of map memory to be freed */
 	memset(ma, 0, sizeof(*ma));
 	INIT_WORK(&copy->work, free_mem_alloc_deferred);
-	queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &copy->work);
+	queue_work(system_dfl_wq, &copy->work);
 }
 
 void bpf_mem_alloc_destroy(struct bpf_mem_alloc *ma)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
index 9794446bc8c6..bb6f85fda240 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
@@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ static void bpf_map_free_in_work(struct bpf_map *map)
 	/* Avoid spawning kworkers, since they all might contend
 	 * for the same mutex like slab_mutex.
 	 */
-	queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &map->work);
+	queue_work(system_dfl_wq, &map->work);
 }
 
 static void bpf_map_free_rcu_gp(struct rcu_head *rcu)
-- 
2.51.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-09-05  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-05  8:53 [PATCH 0/3] bpf: replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users Marco Crivellari
2025-09-05  8:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] bpf: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq Marco Crivellari
2025-09-05  8:53 ` Marco Crivellari [this message]
2025-09-05  8:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] bpf: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users Marco Crivellari
2025-09-07 18:30 ` [PATCH 0/3] bpf: replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users Alexei Starovoitov
2025-09-08 15:43 ` Tejun Heo
2025-09-08 17:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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